Albert Manucy
(1910-1997)

Died aged c. 87

Albert Manucy, born in 1910, was the authoritative scholar on St. Augustine history and architecture. After graduating with a Master’s degree from the University of Florida in 1934, he went to work for the National Park Service, and studied the Castillo de San Marcos in detail. He published his first book, The Houses of St. Augustine, 1566-1821, and explored Spanish architecture on a Fulbright scholarship. In 1966 he became curator for the Southeast Regional Office of the Park Service. In 1977, he published Sixteenth Century St. Augustine: The People and Their Homes. He discovered that from 1566 to 1572, the town of St. Augustine was actually situated on Anastasia Island, not on the mainland. This was later confirmed by historians. Albert Manucy died in 1997.

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Albert C. Manucy (1910–1997) was an author, historian and a Fulbright Scholar who specialized in Spanish Colonial Florida and the architecture of St. Augustine, Florida.

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